Analysis of the nature and policy orientation of nigeria's foreign policy between 1999–2007

The nature and policy orientation of Nigeria's Foreign Policy under President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999–2007) deals with the measurement of Nigeria State or nation at the time. Nigeria is a regional power with gaining sense of self-assurance and a developing capability to demonstrate it. This research principally attempts to underscore through historical, descriptive and comparative analysis, low strategies for perceiving Nigeria's foreign policies were configured in managing political economy of Nigeria's administration of Chief Olusegun Obasoanjo (1999–2007). There is an abundance of evidence to show that internal policies constitute the key to Nigeria's foreign policy. The research reveals that the era of the second coming of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as Nigerian president between 1999 and 2007 did not witness the inauguration and implementation of a dynamic and people-oriented foreign policy dedicated to the realization of Nigeria's national interests/It was also established as a fact that international politics is the true personification of power politics and also the veritable consummation of aligment to ones national interests. This research therefore, among other things recommended that the country Nigeria must no longer operate in such a way as to be seen as anybody's good boy as such a posture is symptomatic of weakness and servility. But ensure that the national interest always take precedence to morality in international politics.